Will David Win Idol?

Posted on May 15, 2008 at 9:10 pm | 10 Comments
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Well, the title has two versions… the first being “Will David Cook Win Idol?” and the other, “Will David Archuleta Win Idol?” You can choose either of the two, it all depends with who you want to win the seventh season of American Idol. If you want Cook to win, use the first one, but if you are in favor of Little David, pick the second one.

Even though it was really unpredictable — IMO — with who would get the final boot before the finale, I expected that it would be a David versus David collision. My mom wants Archuleta to win, my dad said Syesha has a promising talent, and I’m rooting for Cook! But in the end, it’s going to be Archuleta versus Cook. Fame versus talent.

Too bad, Syesha wasn’t lucky this week and she now has to pack her suitcase. It started back during the Andrew Lloyd Webber week when her voice transformed from Tweety Bird to Ibong Adarna. Haha. I don’t know, but since she sang One Rock & Roll Too Many, she got better than her last performance each passing week. But now, after America has voted… she’s got to give way for the two Davids and get the ax.

David Archuleta is good, yeah, but his talent is not enough. I don’t know why Randy Jackson praises him every after his performances. I guess, he’s only surviving in this competition because of his avid fans. Urgh. Did you see one of his fans tugged him during his homecoming? Lolz.

And that leaves us with David Cook. I like him. I like how he performs. I like the way he makes his own arrangements, especially with Always be my Baby, which I think is his best performance. But I noticed that since last week, he was not doing his best. Is something wrong with him, or he is just playing safe and avoiding hitting those high notes? Nonetheless, please, America, make the right decision, vote for David Cook! Lol. Cook rocks!

In the end, one thing is for sure. A David will win and emerge as this season’s Idol. Hahaha. Whatever.

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The Pinoy Tube

Posted on April 21, 2008 at 8:15 pm | 17 Comments
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I’m not really a fan of Philippine TV shows. And oh, this is not a post about the feud between ABS-CBN and GMA, the two giant networks in the country. This entry’s content will center on my thoughts about the programs made by the Filipinos for the Filipinos and pirated by the Filipinos. Well, actually, I’ll be very biased in this entry because most of what I’ll write here are negative comments about the stupid and useless TV shows.

Pinoy Big Brother

I’ve mentioned in this blog numerous times how much I loath this show (I’m too lazy to look for the posts that I am referring to, just use the search box found on my sidebar). Lately I was able to catch a few episodes of this show and I have to confess that it’s somehow entertaining. Yeah, I’m contradicting my own words. But then, there is something in this show that makes me hate it. What’s the right term? Ah, sensationalizing. Everything about this show is being sensationalized… talking about making a mountain out of a mole hill. Yeah, whatever. Another thing is that even though this is a reality based show I still think that it is scripted. Just take Alex in the current teen edition as an example. I bet the production team of PBB picked him because he wasn’t circumcised yet at the time he auditioned. And so, they casted him as one of the teen housemates and planned to have him circumcised while he is in Big Brother’s house. Just two weeks ago, they successfully had the operation inside Big Brother’s house while all of the male housemates were watching the procedure. Presto! Instant high ratings. Boo. And now, what is this thing that I heard that there is still one more housemate who is still uncircumcised? Seriously, I’ll not be shocked that by the end of this season, either Toni or Mariel would reveal that all of the male housemates are still uncut. This proves what I’ve read in Carolyn Parkhurst’s Lost and Found1: “Reality is boring; no one wants to watch someone brushing their teeth or paying their phone bills. It’s all in the editing, they’ve got hundreds of hours of footage, and they’ve got to chop it down to into something worth watching. What they’re looking for is stories; you have to give them a story, or zip, they’re moving to someone else.”

MariMar

Okay, first of all, I want to tell the whole blogosphere that I’m neither a MariMar nor Marian Rivera fan. I was able to get a glimpse of this show a few times and I heard lots of negative comments about it. According to my friends who were able to watch it, the first half of it was good. They said that it gave justice to the original Mexican soap opera. And because many Filipinos loved the remake, GMA extended it. But that’s where it became hell and transformed into what Filipinos call “fantaserye”2. God, I even heard that the ending was really stupid. Angelica (the antagonist) fell from the helicopter where MariMar was in and landed in a riverbank and she was devoured by crocodiles living in the river. How possible is that, seriously?!

Pinoy Idol

What I really hate with this show is that they are advertising it as the “first” franchise of the Idol series in the country. Come on guys, don’t tell me that it’s the first one because you changed “Philippine Idol” into “Pinoy Idol.” Technically speaking, it’s the second season of the Idol series here in the Philippines. Moving on, please forgive me, but for me, the judges are less competent than the previous judges. Jolina Magdangal? Ogie Alcasid? And who is this Wyngard Tracy? Why did they not put Marian Rivera and Dingdong Dantes as the judges instead? Lol. If you know how, uh, shall I say incompetent, the judges during the Binibining Pilipinas 2008, I’m sure, you know what I’m talking about. And come on, Raymond Gutierrez as the host… are you kidding me?

Joaquin Bordado

Just the title of this show makes me ROFL. GMA, or rather the whole Philippines hasn’t get over with fantaseryes yet. Since the first fantaserye that aired back in early 2004, Marina (ABS-CBN) which brought Marinara (GMA) to life, a big number of fantasy dramas were aired. I wonder when ABS-CBN and GMA will stop filming and airing such stupid soaps. And please, stop using weird titles such as this, Kamandag (translation: Venom), Bakekang, and Zaido: Pulis Pangkalawakan. I know, these shows are based on graphic novels, original series and the like and it’s proper to use the real titles but they are really bizarre and they sound funny.

Wheel of Fortune

I don’t really enjoy watching this show. During the time when it was still in ABC and it was Rustom Padilla who hosted the show, I’m definitely sure that I liked it. But now, I don’t know. Is it because of Kris Aquino? Or is it because the game play is not really exciting unlike Deal or No Deal? I hate it when Kris says “Wheel of Fortune” with the matching stupid choreography. Bring back Banker, puhlease?!

Astigs

This is one of the worst TV Shows I ever heard of (I haven’t watched any of its episodes as a matter of fact). I think ABS-CBS has so many talents and they don’t know in which programs they need to put their actors and actresses especially the new ones. As a last resort, they made a TV show where they put all of their talents who don’t have any project at the moment. And I think they are trying to make experiments on new love teams out of these talents that they have. Just seeing the commercial of this show makes me want to break the screen of our TV.

Okay, I should stop now. I might get sued because of my opinions. Lol. Whatever. But only one thing is for sure, I’m not enjoying most of the Philippine TV shows. Well, what do you think is the worst Philippine TV show?

  1. It’s a good book, BTW. [↩]
  2. A soap opera with a twist of fantasy. [↩]

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Shampoo Commercials

Posted on October 18, 2007 at 5:14 pm | 16 Comments
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Yes, it’s already my sembreak. There’s so much thing that I want to do, like I want to bake a peach pie, change the layout of this blog, finish watching House MD (special thanks to the piraters here in downtown San Fernando), read1, write reviews of the books that I have recently finished reading, update this blog, and the list goes on but since I’ve mentioned about updating my blog… I have to update it.

I’ve already mentioned here that the shampoo commercials in the country looked like they were taped in other countries but it turned out that they were taped inside a studio with the usual shocking green background. Honestly speaking, I’m always fascinated with these commercials. Of course, minus the stupid jingles and the weird dance moves. Whoever created them are brilliant and it must have used all of their creative juices just to come up with these funny yet sometimes stupid commercials.

And this bring us to our own version of one of these shampoo commercials featuring three of my high school classmates. I was the one taping this so you will not see me. The following video was part of our final requirement for Economics back in High School. We decided to come up with this stupid spoofed commercial just to have some sort of an icebreaker. And yes, it was an effective icebreaker.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JguMa-lTOOY

You might still remember that in the real commercial, the product that was being advertised ends with the letter “E”, but in this case, we had to change product-that-ends-with-letter-”E” into one of its rivals because we did not have any bottle of product-that-ends-with-letter-”E”.

And now, the advertisers had put the competition to the next level. We have now separate shampoos for men and women. Great? No. I don’t get it why there should be a separate shampoo for men and women. I can’t see any other motives of the advertisers but just to get more people, in this case, men, buy their product.

It’s just like they are saying “Hey, use our new shampoo for men! If you don’t, you’re a homo! Gay!” Smart advertisers, hu? I checked the bottle of both men’s and women’s shampoo of the same brand yesterday, aside from the difference in the color of the bottle, and the men’s have the words “for men”, it turned out there are only two different ingredients used for the men’s shampoo. Now, I wonder what makes it more effective if a male used it.

Advertisers are smart, but we should be smarter than they are. Seriously, I don’t think a man using a so-called women’s shampoo would make him a homosexual and vice versa. Besides, these so-called shampoos for men and women are just new in the market. Last year, when these weird innovations were just a scratch, nobody cares what shampoo we use or if we use them or not. I suppose, they have created a separate shampoo for men because there were no male models for a shampoo in the past. Heck, of course, they would use a female model in advertising their shampoo because females usually have longer hairs. And now, they’re recruiting male models to advertise their shampoo for men.

PS: And when you can say a product is “new?” I’ve noticed that some shampoos — well, not only shampoos — have the word “new” on their containers for ages. Surely, they’re not new anymore, don’t they? Ah, another advertising tactic.

  1. I’m still reading 90 Minutes in Heaven and I’ve got a copy of The Best of Youngblood — finally. [↩]

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Excessive Marathons

Posted on May 11, 2007 at 11:42 am | 22 Comments
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Look! An update, but this does not mean that I’m not in hiatus mode anymore, unless I’ll have other things to say in the coming days.

Two days ago, I and some friends (from high school and grade school) played badminton at a local court. As usual, I’m the one who waited for the others to arrive. No matter how I procrastinate, I still end up waiting. And that’s frustrating me!

By noon, we were all at a local branch of McDonald’s and as most of us haven’t ate lunch, we decided to eat first. After an hour, we we’re already playing. The entrance fee was cheap: PHP 50.00, until you drop. The thing is, I’m neither a badminton enthusiast nor a sports aficionado. I’m no good at any sports. It’s just so ironic to me that I was there. Still, I played: I won in some games, I lost in most games. Lol! Nevertheless, I had a great time.

While catching our breath, we ridiculed our teachers back in high school, here are a few examples that made us laugh once again.

  • Pagtrabayuhin
  • Kumbintu
  • “Is zero an odd number?”
  • *Teacher tries to spell the word ‘ghost’* G-O-S-T “Kulang po ng ‘H’.” G-O-S-H. Gosh! Wooohoo!
  • “Okay, I’ll call you in random.” (I thought to myself: “Cool! He knows the word ‘random’!”) Well, our teacher called us alphabetically. Do you call that random?
  • One of our teachers mispronounced “gauge” as “goose.” He gave us a weak alibi: “Sorry, malabo yung photocopy ko.” All of our copies were clear!

Two days after our badminton session, my body still aches. I’m having a hard time moving. But I’m still looking forward to our next badminton session next week.

*****

I’m also having Heroes and Grey’s Anatomy marathons. These two programs are great. Way to go, Tim Kring and Shonda Rhimes!

As for Amazing Race, I didn’t expect that Eric and Danielle will win. As usual, the last roadblock was hard. Nevertheless, congratulations to them!

Sorry for this lame entry.

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Enchanted Excursion

Posted on April 30, 2007 at 6:14 pm | 20 Comments
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Sorry for the lack of updates and I’m sorry that this one is pretty short.

Recently, I got addicted to Grey’s Anatomy. I’ve been downloading every single episode of the third season. And I really enjoy it. Currently, I’ve already finished the first 13 episodes, so please, no spoilers, eh? But there’s one thing I hate with it, the surgery scenes. I don’t like watching those scenes. Gross.

More recently to that, we had an unplanned trip down south. We went to Tagaytay City and went to EK. I’m glad that we went to Tagaytay, memories from my day trip with my classmates back in high school flooded my mind. It was my first time to go to EK, I thought that the place was good, but I was wrong. I find the park boring and small.

Well, I suppose, there will be less updates in this site for the next few weeks. There’s just nothing to write about and I’m missing so much things. I need to recollect myself.

Uh, yeah, I reckon, I need to use the “H” word… hiatus.

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